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Christmas this year was wonderful.  We may not have gotten a fresh dusting of snow as the kids had hoped, but we had such a good time playing together in the house that it didn’t matter.  The best part of all was how excited our kids were to give gifts to each other.  I think […]

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I took a day off from dissertation-writing to make a snowman with the kids. Allie was pretty good at rolling huge snowballs, so we made a 6’4″ snowman. 4521|300

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Between soccer practices, violin lessons, piano lessons and homework, Caleb is lucky to get in a good nap let alone a bath in the bathtub. But, tonight I decided that it had been long enough. So he got his first real bath and he was okay with it at first. At least he waited until […]

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Seth had his very first soccer game today. His sisters, who have been playing for a couple of years, have done a great job teaching him how to play. Seth scored almost every goal his team made. We’ll have some video up soon. I’m experimenting with a new way to post video. Click “play” in […]

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Caleb Michael Jones arrived on Wednesday, August 8th, 2007 at 2:54 am. He weighs in at 8lbs 12oz and he’s 22″ in length. Some photos taken at Geisinger Medical Center are located here. More photos are available in our family photo album here, or click the “Photo Album” link at the top/side of this page.

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When I married JB I had no idea I was marrying into a family of bathroom readers. Before I married him, I was perfectly content to take care of business without ever reading a single word. But, in marriage, people change, and let’s just say that I’ve done most of the changing in this realm. […]

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Over the past couple of weeks Rachel has started to stand, and just yesterday and today she has started to take her first, tentative steps. We’ve videoed most of the process — the first clip, of Rachel learning to stand, can be viewed here. Video size: 5 MB Format: Windows Media (.wmv)

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Rachel has started to figure out how to crawl. This video (click on the picture on the left) was taken the first day Rachel attempted to move from a sitting to crawling position. Video size: 12 MB Format: .wmv

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Rachel is making tremendous strides in her development lately. All of the energy which she used to use for screaming is, of late, being spent exploring her world. She’s rolls over alot more often, she has started pulling herself up to a kneeling position using the furniture, and she’ll be crawling as soon as she […]

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{mosimage}Santa Claus stopped by our ward Christmas party a few weeks ago, and we got some video of the older kids telling Santa what they wanted for Christmas. Click on the picture to the left to launch the video (.wma format). You can read about our visit to Santa Claus at last year’s Christmas party […]

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